Beyonce News: Skyscrapers Shaped Like Bey's Body Built In Australia; Architect Got Inspiration From Diva's 'Ghost’

By Maria Slither - 08 Jul '15 12:15PM
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Beyonce's 2013 music video of Ghost has stimulated the artistic cravings of the architects behind the Premiere Tower that is soon to rise in the Melbourne skyline.

"Art and science? You betcha. For those more on the art than science side, we will reveal that the form does pay homage to something more aesthetic - we're going to trust you've seen the music video for Beyonce's 'Ghost,'" goes the statement from the skyscraper's official architecture firm, Elenberg Fraser as reported from US Weekly.

The new Premiere Tower at 134 Spencer Street will acquire a curvaceous structure inspired from the fabric-wrapped bodies of dancers in Bey's 2013 video 'Ghost', a track from the Haunted album but later came out as a stand-alone music video.

The skyscraper is said to be made of 68-storeys that will contain 660 apartments, as well as a 160-room hotel. It will be strategically built at the west end of the city's business center, Dezeen said.

It has now been granted a building permit further granting the architects to start the project in May.

Aside from its aesthetic aspect, the structure has been the product of careful research. Using parametric modelling - a type of computer-aided design, the architects aim to create a building that considers both site and climactic constraints.

"The twists and turns of this new project belie its pure and simple, first principles rationale... This project is the culmination of our significant research into how to best work with individual site and climatic constraints, brought together using our new parametric modeling techniques. The complex form - a vertical cantilever - is actually the most effective way to redistribute the building's mass, giving the best results in terms of structural dispersion, frequency oscillation and wind requirements," the statement continued.

The Premiere Tower is just one of the structures that got its inspiration from music.

Sydney Morning Herald identified other amazing structures such as the Schmitt Music Building of Minneapolis, The Sydney Opera House, The Music Box in New Orleans, Dancing House in Prague, the Jewish Museum in Berlin among others.

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